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15Aug/080

Olympics:A lifetime of training for just ten seconds…

  • If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.~ Jesse Owens
  • So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! ~ Epictetus
  • Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.~ Richard M. Nixon
  • An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.~ Jeff Fenech.
  • I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.~ Noureddine Morceli
  • Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.~ Joseph Heller
  • The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.~ Pierre de Coubertin


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